Showing posts with label FDA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FDA. Show all posts
Friday, May 01, 2015

FDA Calls For Better Evidence On Health Care Antiseptics

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# 9997   In this age of increasing HAIs (Hospital Acquired Infections) the number of times a HCW must stop and wash ( or sanitize ) t...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

FDA Issues Warning Letters Against Companies Selling `Ebola Cures’

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Credit CDC PHIL   # 9008     Early in the 20th century electrical shock devices were used by doctors, and sold to the public,...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

FDA Statement On Additional 300 Vials Discovered At NIH Campus Lab

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Transferring H7N9 Into Vials – Credit CDC   # 8839   Just hours after the House subcommittee hearing on lapses at the CDC lab...
Monday, December 16, 2013

FDA Reviewing Safety & Effectiveness Of Antibacterial Soaps

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Credit FDA   # 8078   A topic we’ve touched on more than a couple of times in the past has been the wisdom of using products c...
Friday, November 22, 2013

FDA Approves Adjuvanted H5N1 Vaccine For National Stockpile

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Since the H5N1 virus was first identified in 1996 it has expanded into more than 20 different clades and subclades, and new clades and ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

FDA & CDC Warn On Weight Loss Supplement

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  # 7846     There is an erroneous belief that whatever over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and supplements may lack in effectiv...
Saturday, October 05, 2013

The Perils Of Not Knowing Your Dose

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Photo Credit – Wikipedia     # 7837   Twice last year (see The Narrow Margin & Too Much Of A Good Thing ) we looked at ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

FDA: Drug Safety Communication On Azithromycin & Cardiac Risk

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  # 7000     Following up on a story from May of 2012, the Food and Drug Administration this morning has released a Drug Safety Co...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

CDC HAN Update On Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

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  Photo Credit FDA # 6796   While the number of new meningitis cases linked to contaminated steroid injectables produced by NEC...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

FDA: Ameridose Announces Voluntary Recall Of All Products

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Photo Credit CDC # 6685   Ameridose , a sister company to the New England Compounding Center ( NECC ) – the pharmacy at the cen...
Friday, October 26, 2012

FDA Statement On Conditions Reported At NECC Facility

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  Photo Credit CDC     # 6669   The FDA has released a report citing the conditions they observed at the New England Compoundi...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Narrow Margin

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Photo Credit – Wikipedia   # 6649     Cold and flu season is upon us, and that means the consumption of over the counter (O...